12 Easy and Natural Ways to Reduce Wrinkles and Fight Aging
Do you spend a lot of time pondering over which cosmetics are best for you? Do you often feel the more money you spend the better the product will be? If so, you are not alone, millions of women drop thousands of dollars of their hard-earned money annually on cosmetics and beauty products. There are creams to banish your wrinkles,...
Is Your Pet Making You Sick?
Your cute, cuddly pets are capable of passing more than 70 human diseases to you by way of scratches, bites, and bodily fluid contact (saliva, feces, urine, etc.). A study conducted by Ohio State University in Columbus reviewed over 300 articles regarding infections that were transmitted to humans by companion animals. Lead author Dr. Jason Stull of the Department of Veterinary...
Ward Off Cancer and 11 Other Things Noni Can Do for Your Health
Recently, noni has been gaining popularity, and is often promoted as a plant that has a wide range of health benefits. Noni is a small evergreen native to the Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia, Australia and India. While research continues into the health impacts of noni, it is frequently used and consumed for a number of purposes. Cancer Research is still...
8 Ways Meditation Benefits Your 37 Trillion Cells
If you are as passionate about a healthy lifestyle as we are, then you’ve likely looked into and maybe even tried meditation. Meditation has been around for thousands of years with millions of people swearing by its effectiveness. Now, studies seem to confirm that meditation affects us down to a cellular level, impacting our brains and potentially even our...
Remedy Erectile Dysfunction without the “Little Blue Pill”
Erectile dysfunction or “ED” is more common than you might think. The National Institute of Health states that up to 25 percent of men over the age of 65 will experience erectile dysfunction, as will 5 percent of men over the age of 40. Sure, you can discuss the “Alice in Wonderland” remedy pill with your doctor, and it...
3 Sugary Foods You Should Be Eating
Eating excess amounts of sugar can cause a wide array of complications, including diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, and many other inflammatory diseases. This is because regular table sugar and sugar substitutes trigger a repeated immune response that can lead to chronic illness. However, did you know there are sugary foods that can actually combat this inflammatory reaction, help you lose...
Will Facebook Be the Next Doctor’s Office?
As technology advances, the ways we communicate advance with it. Naturally, that communication advancement begins to encompass more and more areas of our lives. This time the advancement involves communication about our health care. Is social media the new form of doctor-patient communication? The results of a national survey conducted by Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health found that...
Do You Have Metabolic Syndrome?
A new study has revealed shocking figures about metabolic syndrome in the United States. Previous data from the 1999–2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) indicated that approximately 34 percent of American adults have metabolic syndrome. The latest study, published in May 2015 in the Journal of the American Medical Association examined more recent statistics and revealed that the...
How to Live Well Without Your Gallbladder
Did you know that every year over 600,000 cholecystectomies (gallbladder removal surgeries) are performed in the United States? Gallbladder surgery, like wisdom tooth removal, has become a routine procedure, with over 90 percent of them performed laparoscopically, meaning minimally invasive. People who undergo the surgery are usually told that nothing changes for them after the procedure. Sometimes they will...
Can Having Sex Protect You from Prostate Cancer?
There are approximately 220,800 newly diagnosed cases of prostate cancer each year in the U.S. Of those cases, prostate cancer claims an average of 27,540 lives annually. When it comes to cancer-related deaths in America, prostate cancer is second only to lung cancer. The odds of diagnosis are one man out of every seven. A look at ejaculation habits and cancer...
